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The vinyl only has eight tracks, Spencer.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

(so yeah - the 'plus' in that description is a bit misleading. Tip!)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Noted!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 2 February 2005 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ada mix is amazing, but it's recorded at a too high level. I love the EBTG track. It sounds like Thorne's solo stuff.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought my copy from Smallfish. They also do mail order if you're not in London.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

If 'maps' breaks me with adoration and wonder and wow, will I like this? Will I love it?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 3 February 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I still haven't heard all of it (hope to remedy that in Berlin) but I like both "Eve" and "Cool My Fire (I'm Burning)" more than "Maps" - same starry-eyed Orbital majesty, but more subtle in their emotional tug and more delightfully hypnotic and propulsive.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 3 February 2005 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i've just taken sleeping pills and i'm going to put this on my ipod and drift off to sleep. mmm. still my fave album of 2004, i think.

― toby (tsg20), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow this album is great. she's found a really nice balance between letting her songs unravel slowly and making them immediate. The "Cool My Fire" reprise is absolutely gorgeous.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 12 February 2005 10:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever I play "maps" people always ask me about it, no matter what type of music they're into. Equals "good" I think...

― Jacob (Jacob), Saturday, 12 February 2005 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Lex how did you buy this? I have been trying for weeks :(

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 12 February 2005 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

g why u no aim anymore?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 12 February 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

haha Greg I haven't actually bought it :(

I saw it in Selectadisc in December when I was broke though, it might still be there.

Even my dad likes this! He likes the Junior Boys too, world's least likely microhouse fan aargh.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 12 February 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

(cd version out of press but should be available again from end of next week, apparently)

― dh, Saturday, 12 February 2005 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Just picked up the album, but my exciting news is just how amazing Ada was live in Paris. If you get a chance to see her take it - it´s awesome to watch a club full of people go mental to "The Red Shoes". There´s a thickness to her production which, while totally apparent on record, needs to be heard on a crowded dancefloor to achieve full impact. It´s hard to think of music which combines pop swooniness and dancefloor science more delightfully.

But bah for only playing for an hour, and bah for no "Lovelace".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 10:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie Nicks meets Ada in remix video.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 28 February 2005 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

oh baby!

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 14 April 2005 09:50 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I like "eve" a lot more than most songs I have heard this year with maybe the exception of vitalic's "the past".

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 7 May 2005 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

'eve' is amazing.

In my head there's a compitition going on between Ada and Vitalic. Just because they are two dance albums i got really recently. I think Ada is winning but they are both great great great.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Saturday, 7 May 2005 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The Blondie remixes 12" should be out soon!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The Koze remix of "Eve" samples Snoop Dogg!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Sunday, 8 May 2005 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

wow!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 8 May 2005 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "Eve" is probably my favourite song on the album. It is so unique and thoughtful in its construction and when listening to it I can't help but imagine that Ada thinks very deeply and very seriously about what she wants her music to do.

The section where that single chiming chord comes in, followed by bass and a stuttering beat, followed by the chord transmuting into a harpsichord... is not only utterly thrilling and heartbreaking, but strikes me as possessing a quality of defiance, a challenge to how we tend to think about dance music - sort of like deliberate sonic or contextual contrasts in sample-based music but operating at a much subtler level.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, 8 May 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

four weeks pass...

The "Maps" remix that some people have been talking about is by Mayer/Thomas. It's on the 2nd "Blondix" remix 12" together with a reworking of "Cool My Fire" by Erlend Oye "and his orchestra".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Ada's live version of "Believer" is amazing. Sounds like the old Super Nintendo game "Secret of Manna".

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"you must leave the village FOREVER"

― purplefacedbadlyanimatedchief (Ronan), Monday, 6 June 2005 07:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think she played "Believer" when I saw her!

The peak moments of her set for me were "Lucky Charm", "The Red Shoes" and "Each & Every One".

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 6 June 2005 08:08 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

I'm sorry I know I'm not really adding anything of any real import but she really is great, isn't she?

― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

yup

pretty, too

― Baby BobO (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

she makes me so happy

― c/n (Cozen), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I'm seeing her live again at Fabric tomorrow!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

I saw her live, with Superpitcher.

― Hand Shapes (nordicskilla), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Her new Int'l Pony remix is pretty nice.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 1 July 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I like the Blondix 12" of remixes pretty well, too.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 2 July 2005 08:04 (twenty years ago)

three months pass...

it's at Amoeba in L.A. on CD now

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

Areal must have repressed it. Boomkat (UK) also have/had it back in stock. With luck, this may arrive in my letterbox today! Can't believe how long I've waited to get this one.

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:11 (twenty years ago)

all of which reminds me... Ada - I Love Asphalt?

― login name (fandango), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

I played this album for friends and they want it! I wouldn't be surprised if there's some more widespread interest in it eventually.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I still think Blondie's half-baked, particularly in the light of Kobol and 2rabimmel, 2rabammel, 2rabum, 2bum bum. I find the latter two stronger and much more revelatory. That is, somehow I just can't fight the feeling that Ada got lazy and/or complacent with her full-length. (Although if Blondie is, for some [or many! hurrah!], the gateway drug to the rest of Areal's catalog...well, it can't be all bad, right?)

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

I don't think it's laziness or complacence as much as it's the idea of putting out an actual album! Blondie isn't nearly as dancefloor-playable as her other stuff because it's either lighter vocal tracks or some softened instrumentals that work better alone than in the mix. She's probably stronger on the heavier dancefloor stuff but the album is a lot more mellow and destined for more varied playing.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Dancefloor or not is not the issue I (have) pondered.

On the Areal thread I equated her repackaging of 3.5 tracks to laziness/complacency. If ever I, personally, were given the enviable opportunity to release an actual album, I hope I would have the patience to increase the ratio of "GREAT" vocal/mellower/softer instrumental tracks to average tracks rather than squander said opportunity by repackaging one third and pedestrianizing another.

(For example, Ada's two 2rabimmel... contributions alone suprass more than half the tracks on Blondie.)

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

I played this album for friends and they want it! I wouldn't be surprised if there's some more widespread interest in it eventually.

I know. This is one of those rare albums that makes all kinds of people stop and ask what it is.

― Baaderonixx and the hedonistic gluttons (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

Okay, so the date's wrong on discogs but "I Love Asphalt" is new Ada material then?

I'd hope this will receive more 'widespread interest' when she (potentially) blows it out of the water with her next record!

This is unstoppable to the half-way mark, goes quite a bit pear-shaped after that but is so charming that it's really very forgiveable. The first two minutes of "Cool My Fire (I'm Burning)" are such sweet, unbearable tension. I feel like I've had this album a year already.

― login name (fandango), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

'Sternhagel' is amazing. I've listened to it a dozen times in the past two days.

― jergins (jergins), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:11 (twenty years ago)

What label is it on? I keep reading about it but haven't found anywhere online to buy it yet.

― mike h. (mike h.), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/210894-01.htm

http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/1207153-02.htm

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

also see here: http://www.discogs.com/release/650885

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 13 April 2006 03:54 (twenty years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/image/A-28297-1098638320.jpg

"close your eyes and wet your lips"

http://static.flickr.com/3/6744682_7748306773_m.jpg

"yes please"

i love this album too much. cant believe it took me 2 years to buy it. both cover versions are awesome (esp the blindhouse one). i think "who pays the bills" is the only tune i dont like

― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 13 April 2006 08:49 (twenty years ago)

i haven't listened to blondie in a while (v wrong of me, this thread reminds me that i must dig it out again asap) but i heard a couple of older ada tracks for the first time this year - 'i love asphalt' and 'arriba amoeba' - and HOLY FUCK THEY ARE RULING MY WORLD COMPLETELY. in a completely different way to the album! much more upfront and banging.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:00 (twenty years ago)

i mean, that rhythm on 'arriba amoeba'. and the driving drilling noises on 'i love asphalt'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 April 2006 09:01 (twenty years ago)

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Missed that she had a two-track EP last year:

https://pamparecords.bandcamp.com/album/colectiva-ep-pampadigi004

& guests on the new DJ Koze single:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX0zwHuQphA

― etc, Monday, 20 January 2025 02:52 (one year ago)

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